Sentence examples for efforts to attach from inspiring English sources

Bad weather overnight hampered efforts to attach cables to the ferry for towing.

David Roe, a senior attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund, describes the efforts to attach the bill as a rider as "a nasty little sneak attack".

In his efforts to attach democratic trappings to his dictatorship, he has given the mullahs a lead role in running the country.

So far, Senators Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, both Democrats, have scuttled Republican efforts to attach the proposal onto unrelated legislation where critics would get little opportunity to amend its punitive provisions.

Southern senators defeated their northern counterparts' efforts to attach basic civil liberties such as habeas corpus and a right to a trial by jury to the law: these rights, they reasoned, did not apply to property, only to citizens.

Efforts to attach dollar figures to human life offend some people, but governments and courts do it often for insurance cases, disability payments, safety regulation and so forth.The Chicago economists treat these in a similar way to Mr Wallsten and Ms Kosec, attaching a cost to every soldier killed in Iraq of $6m-7m 6m-7m

It is a timely effort to attach real numbers to an increasingly politicized debate over energy subsidies.

In November, an effort to attach the Senate version to an appropriations bill lost by a 54-to-45 54-to-45 54-to-45

These provisions are generally referred to as Blaine amendments, after the sponsor of a failed effort to attach such an amendment to the federal Constitution in 1875.

Their most viable path seemed to be an effort to attach revisions to the health care bill to a budget reconciliation measure, which the Senate could adopt by a simple majority.

This campaign, which was created by Mullen in Boston, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, was an effort to attach some emotional power to reading and to the Barnes & Noble brand.